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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/les-abeilles-et-les-bourdons-juges-par.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 14</span><span class="fp-text">LE JEU ET LA SÉVÉRITÉ</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XIV</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">DE LUSU ET SEVERITATE</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un Athénien vit Ésope jouant aux noix</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">au milieu d'une troupe d'enfants ; il s'arrêta</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et se prit à rire, le croyant fou. Le vieillard s'en aperçut ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et comme il était plus souvent railleur que raillé,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il posa au milieu de la rue un arc, débandé.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Hé&nbsp;! l'homme sage, dit-il, devine un peu ce que j'ai voulu faire.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La foule s'amasse, notre homme se met l'esprit à la torture,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">sans pouvoir rien comprendre à la question posée ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">enfin il s'avoue vaincu. Le sage victorieux lui dit alors&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Tu rompras bien vite un arc, si tu le tiens toujours tendu ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais, détends-le et tu pourras t'en servir quand tu voudras.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Puerorum in turba quidam ludentem Atticus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aesopum nucibus cum vidisset, restitit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et quasi delerum risit. Quod sensit simul</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">derisor potius quam deridendus senex,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">arcum retensum posuit in media via&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Heus&nbsp;! inquit, sapiens expedi quid fecerim.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Concurrit populus. Ille se torquet diu,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec quaestionis <span class="fp-correction" title="posite  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">positae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="positae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">posite</span></span> causam intellegit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Novissime succumbit. Tum victor Aesopus&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Cito rumpes arcum semper si tensum habueris ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">at si laxaris cum voles erit utilis.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ainsi, l'on doit parfois reposer l'esprit pour donner ensuite</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">plus de nerf aux pensées.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sic lusus animo debent aliquando dari,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ad cogitandum melior ut redeat tibi.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/les-abeilles-et-les-bourdons-juges-par.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
<td class="fp-right"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-chien-et-lagneau.html">Fable suivante</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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